Poverty rate — market vs disposable income (redistribution effect)

Name: Poverty rate — market vs disposable income (redistribution effect)
Creator: OECD

OECDPeriod 2014~2023Retrieved 2026-11-09

Poverty rates (50% of median) before taxes and transfers (market income) and after (disposable income). The gap is welfare's poverty-reduction effect.

2014: 18.1% → 2023: 14.9% (down 3.2 pp). Highest: 2014 (18.1%).

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Poverty rate — market vs disposable income (redistribution effect) · 2014~2023 (unit: %)
Year	Disposable income — total	Market income — total	Disposable income — 66+	Market income — 66+
2014	18.1	19.9	45.9	57.6
2015	17.4	19.7	44.2	58.1
2016	17.4	20.0	44.8	59.0
2017	17.0	19.9	43.8	58.7
2018	16.5	20.2	43.3	60.4
2019	16.1	21.0	43.2	61.3
2020	15.1	21.7	40.5	60.6
2021	14.8	21.1	39.3	59.9
2022	14.9	20.2	39.7	59.1
2023	14.9	19.9	39.8	57.0

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Reference (APA 7th)

OECD. (2026). Income distribution database (IDD): Korea [Data set]. OECD Data Explorer. Retrieved November 9, 2026, from https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_WISE_IDD%40DF_IDD&df[ag]=OECD.WISE.INE

Source https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_WISE_IDD%40DF_IDD&df[ag]=OECD.WISE.INE

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